Life is a great big canvas, and you should throw all the paint on it you can. — Danny Kaye Copy Share Image
People don't have time to wait for somebody to paint their portraits anymore. The money is in photography. — Robert Mapplethorpe Copy Share Image
I do not paint a portrait to look like the subject,rather does the subject grow to look like his portrait. — Ceejay Copy Share Image
I wish I felt energetic and could paint all the time, because there are so many paintings I'd like to do. — Wanda Koop Copy Share Image
The minute I sat in front of a canvas I was happy. Because it was a world, and I could do what… — Alice Neel Copy Share Image
I just got really into this one girl on Instagram and had her paint little pineapples on my nails during shooting. — Abbi Jacobson Copy Share Image
No high-minded painter of the last fifty years has been able to come to terms with his art without coming to terms… — Walter Darby Bannard Copy Share Image
When I was in high school, I was going to be a painter because I had a facility for painting. I could… — Ellen McLaughlin Copy Share Image
Hyperrealism is more about objectifying... how an object can be portrayed when it is seen through a camera's lens... all my paintings… — Liu Dan Copy Share Image
“It is not possible to have schools for painting; there are only painters. Schools have no use except for discerning the analytic… — Gustave Courbet Copy Share Image
My aim is increasingly to make my photographs look so much like photographs [rather than paintings, etchings, etc.] that unless one has… — Alfred Stieglitz Copy Share Image
Although there is a sense in which the camera does indeed capture reality, not just interpret it, photographs are as much an… — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
In my opinion painters owe to Giotto, the Florentine painter, exactly the same debt they owe to nature, which constantly serves them… — Giorgio Vasari Copy Share Image
When you don't know how to pick up a brush, you don't know anything; at that moment you're an artist. I'll simply… — Milton Resnick Copy Share Image
For a long time I found the celebrities of modern painting and poetry ridiculous. I loved absurd pictures, fanlights, stage scenery, mountebanks… — Arthur Rimbaud Copy Share Image
Sometimes I'll dream that I saw a show and then I'll wake up in the morning and realize that I didn't see… — Julian Schnabel Copy Share Image
In a moment when criticism shows a singular dearth of direction every man has to be a law unto himself in matters… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
My process of working is not really that unique. I like to paint during the day, and block out large chunks of… — Rosson Crow Copy Share Image
“She had picked the spot the day before and carried out a stool low enough to sit on and still have her… — Tove Jansson Copy Share Image
“After tidying the kitchen, Claire walked upstairs and found Tyler in the hallway, lost in thought as he rearranged his paintings hanging… — Sarah Addison Allen Copy Share Image
I wasn't interested in going to the school dances. I wasn't interested in going to the football games. What I wanted was… — Brie Larson Copy Share Image
There are people who lie like a great painter painting a masterpiece or a great author writing his or her greatest novel.… — Eugene Nathaniel Butler Copy Share Image
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